Single Euro Payments Area includes Estonia

Estonia started operating within the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) on February 1st, 2014. Reasons for its acceptance were gaining the advantage of an integrated market and simplification of payment solutions for private persons as well as companies. The main change accompanying joining SEPA is that from now on all the account numbers have to…

Latvia´s changeover to the Euro

On July 9th this year the ECOFIN Council approved the Latvian participation in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) from January 1st 2014. The Bank of Latvia fixed the exchange rate at 0.702804 already in 2005, one lat being equivalent to €1.42. As of January 1st 2014, financial institutions and stock exchanges will convert electronic…